[ovs-dev] [PATCH] acinclude: netdev-dpdk: use pkg-config of libdpdk

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Timothy M. Redaelli <tredaelli at redhat.com>
wrote:

> I like the idea, but I think it's better to wait for upstream (DPDK) to
> add pkg-config support before pushing something that actually can only
> be used in debian-based distributions (libdpdk-dev package).
>

Thanks Timothy for your feedback.

DPDK will unlikely grow that feature before rebuilding the build system
which is work in progress but still needs quite some time.
OTOH on said Debian based Distributions it would fix a real issue which is
to allow to properly split header packaging for multiarch support.

And that is exactly why we made it:
  if pkg-config available
    use pkg-config
  else
    as it always was

If unfortunately "wait" is the overall consensus we can live with that, yet
I'd clearly prefer to see the change accepted to resolve our issues we have
"now".

cu
Christian